Maybe I can chime something here ;-) A camera that will take 5 images simultaneous and stitch in realtime does exist to create a fully immersive video. Here is a link to the site. http://www.ptgrey.com/products/ladybug2/index.asp Unfortunately it costs $10,000.00 USD. :-(
There are other ways to create images from a normal camera for example check out this website: http://www.gigapan.org/ & http://www.gigapan.com/ - They built a robotic system that uses a simple camera to create very big Panoramas. They don't accept images under 50M pixels. I don't know the price for this system. I use a different system Canon 450D with a Fisheye lense and a Panorama head on a tripod to create an Equirectangular image. I then use Pano2VR from Garden Gnome http://www.pano2qtvr.com/ To extract the Cube faces from the Equirectangular images. It would cost you approx. $5000.00 if you had to buy all the gear to get started. But you should be able to do it for under $3000.00 if you buy cheaper equipment and software. Also check out: www.kaidan.com www.immervision.com Kind regards .. Rudolph Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tigme.com www.carrara3d.co.za -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.O. BOX 442 KLEINMOND 7195 SOUTH AFRICA [P] 028 271 5450 [M] 082 254 3927 [F] 088 028 271 5450 ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Kapelyan To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:22 PM Subject: [away3d] Re: Skybox6 texture question Ahh- I haven't heard of an app that does that with photos, but I am assuming it would work the same way if you had took 6 pictures. There could be cameras that do that (that have 6 lenses etc). I think it can be done by hand but you would need to place your tripod/camera perfectly, and even still do some photoshop adjusting... So for a real life photograph (since it is so hard to recreate the precision of the math in a 3d app), your best best would be something like the quicktime VR layout, or other "mapping" of the skybox or "panorama". Maybe google street view uses a system like the 6 images...but I am sure those cameras cost a lot!!!! In general the cameras to produce "perfect" images cost alot. There are hacks to create panorama images with a standard camera (such as use a shiny christmas ball). And there are software to create panoramas from many images, but I don't know of any offhand that will create the 6 image layout for you...if someone does please post! So the 6 images seem like its best left for something super accurate like a 3d renderer. -Pete On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Jensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yup. It answers how to make this in a 3D application, but how would one do this for a photographic texture? Is there a software that can convert from Cubic Panorama to Skybox6 format? J -- ___________________ Actionscript 3.0 Flash 3D Graphics Engine HTTP://AWAY3D.COM
